Ah, thank you Bhante.The photo was taken by an old school friend of mine who is currently in Myanmar.The photo seems to be with a number that were taken around Mandalay. I remember seeing similar inscriptions on the gabled steps up the summit of Mandalay Hill.with metta,

Ben

Learn this from the waters:in mountain clefts and chasms,loud gush the streamlets,but great rivers flow silently.